CaseSphere2012
Texas City, IL, USA
Sitting out by a bonfire in an area near a hwy and inter-county bike trail, a few friends and I observed 4 low flying fireball craft.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 2520s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-01-12
- Where
- Texas City, IL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 42 min.
- Geo
- 37.878, -88.393 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-texas-city-il-2012-2cd033
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In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Texas City, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 270 sightings in 2012.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
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